Look, people, it's just my opinion. Get a wife fer chrissakes!

I was there and I wrote down every song and my comments in my notepad which accompanied me to every show. I then transferred the notes to my journal which I still have to this day. My journal says that the Wharf Rat was ho-hum. That's how it struck me then and listening to it again strikes me the same way, but it's my opinion and it is meaningless, essentially, unless you are intending to use this review to decide if it is up to your snuff.

This is a great show as all the others of this post Egypt run were, but there is a bit of distinction here and there. This night was not as fiery as the previous and I suspect, overall, that the band was a little tired.

That's all.

This has got to be one of the finest TMNS I've heard. Beautiful middle jam with soaring peak beginning around 4:45. Makes my heart sing.

great show, probably not as good as the comic relieve hunt's review provides. likely noone on this earth can remember a show like this, in detail, song to song, like evan can, 30 + years later. sometimes i truly wonder if half the yaahoos that provide reviews such as this one are just alternate personalities of 22 year olds that dream of having seen the boys in 78. Anyway, i highly doubt anyone was critiquing or taking notes of each song, at winterland, in 78, much less evan. I call bullshit.

Ahhhhhhh I will always love that place! Saw many shows there and never had a bad time. Like most early Dead shows, once you were in it was like "church". Anything goes............One time saw Jerry at El Camino Ball Park in Palo Alto with Merl. Sat with my friends Ben and Bambie and taped the show....alas don't know where that one went but have one from '64 Champs Palo Alto and a winterland 10/25/69 I taped. Remember Fire in the city and Your Sons and Daughters? Garcia later...............

Evan S. HUnt - wtf are you talking about?
This version of Wharf Rat is excellent - long, wailing guitar solos, soulful singing. Also the Mojo/MLBJ that precedes it is pure magic. I was not there like you, but I think you need to listen to this again. Great show, high energy. The disjonted end to an uptempo Sugaree is about all I've found to complain about

that's a spacey turtle! Garcia vocals fading out...guitar solo trails off offf offff

"Sounds like even Phil is singing on Truckin' and what a grandiose spectacle it was."

He was. Saw it from the upper level, stage right, and yes it was a spectacle. My first show, so of course it was the greatest spectacle I'd ever seen. It's still in the top 5.

But don't let my gauzy reminisces sway you. The show does hold up. If I were honest I'd give it 4, but how can you give your first show a 4?